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Prospective Visiting Scholars

The Archaeology Center welcomes applicants from those who wish to spend a period of time affiliated with the Center as Visiting Scholars. There is a lively intellectual community at the Center in which Visitors are welcome to take part. Generally the Center does not provide funding for Visiting Scholars, but it can from time to time provide work space in the Center and provide access to libraries and facilities.

Those wishing to apply should write at least 6 months in advance to the Director of the Archaeology Center indicating the purpose of the visit, funding, and enclosing a CV.

Current Visiting Scholars

Arek Marciniak (2011-2012 academic year)

Arek Marciniak is an Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Poznań in Poland. His expertise is in the development of early farming communities in western Asia and central Europe and their progression to complex societies. His other interests comprise zooarchaeology of farming communities, archaeological heritage and political context of practicing archaeology as well as archaeological theory and history of archaeological thought. He has been a co-director of the Polish team at the Neolithic tell in Çatalhöyük, Turkey. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed books and journals. Among his recent publications are Placing Animals in the Neolithic. Social Zooarchaeology of Prehistoric Farming Communities and Grahame Clark and his Legacy (with John Coles). He is currently involved in the project on distance learning solutions in archaeology and archaeological heritage. While at Stanford, he will teach two courses Social Zooarchaeology.  Animals within prehistoric social worldsand Politics, nationalism, heritage and archaeology in Central/Eastern Europe.

Stratos Nanoglou (Winter Quarter 2012)

Stratos Nanoglou is an archaeologist currently working for the Greek Archaeological Service in the area of Thessaloniki, northern Greece. For the past 15 years he has been excavating for the service mostly multi-period sites including Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements and Early Iron Age to Late Medieval settlements and cemeteries. Additionally he has been teaching courses on archaeology at the University of Thessaly (Volos) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki). His research interests revolve mostly around the question of the constitution of subjectivities through the inhabitation of a material world and has published papers on representational practices, the interplay between body and space and the construction of localities as an outcome of practices situated in space and time. He will be teaching two courses at Stanford in Winter 2012: Object Lessons and The Aegean in the Neolithic and Bronze Age

Albino Pereira de Jesus Jopela (April 2012)

My research is focused on issues of conservation and management systems of Heritage, especially in relation to rock art sites in Mozambique and southern Africa. I received my BA Honours in History (2006) from Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique); a BA Honours (2007) and Masters Degree (2010) in Archaeology from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). My Masters dissertation looked at traditional custodianship practises for archaeological sites in southern African heritage management and considered how the social context of heritage management has changed. This research uncovered the mismatch between public policy makers (formal heritage management systems) and local communities’ perceptions (traditional custodianship systems) in terms of the meanings and notions of ‘heritage’ (e.g. the value and meaning of rock art for contemporary African communities). This is directing my PhD research at the Department of Archaeology and the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand. I am interested in investigating people’s perceptions, attitudes and practices towards heritage in order to understand how the past is constituted and utilized (for instance through things and material practice) by the contemporary Mozambican society. For instance: What does and what does not become heritage in a given case? How do different institutional worlds (traditional and formal systems) influence how heritage is defined and ‘lives’ in the country? In order to understand the use that places and processes of heritage are put to in the contemporary Mozambican society I will explore three case studies: the Memorial Site of the Liberation Struggle in Gaza province (southern Mozambique), the Chimanimani National Park in Manica province (central Mozambique) and Ilha de Moçambique World Heritage Site in Nampula province (northern Mozambique). This programme is funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation through the Wadsworth African Fellowship that I was awarded in January 2012.

I hold a permanent position as Archaeologist and lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) and I am also the Director of undergraduate programme for Archaeology. I am also an active collaborator with the National Directorate for Cultural Heritage of Mozambique whose responsibility is to advise on policies and strategies regarding the conservation and management of cultural immovable heritage in the country. I have also worked as UNESCO Consultant on missions in Mozambique and Angola.